Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-21238

High

Published: 14 January 2025

Published
14 January 2025
Modified
24 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0067 71.4th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Windows Telephony Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Security Summary

CVE-2025-21238 is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability affecting the Windows Telephony Service. Published on 2025-01-14, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and is associated with CWE-122 and NVD-CWE-noinfo.

The vulnerability enables remote exploitation over the network with low attack complexity and no required privileges, though it necessitates user interaction. A successful attack allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, resulting in remote code execution on the targeted system.

Microsoft's update guide provides details on mitigation and patching for this vulnerability at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21238.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-122NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

microsoft
windows 10 1507
≤ 10.0.10240.20890 · ≤ 10.0.10240.20890
microsoft
windows 10 1607
≤ 10.0.14393.7699 · ≤ 10.0.14393.7699
microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.6775 · ≤ 10.0.17763.6775
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.5371
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.5371
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.4751
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.4751
microsoft
windows 11 24h2
≤ 10.0.26100.2894
microsoft
windows server 2008
all versions, r2
microsoft
windows server 2012
all versions, r2
+5 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

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